--- title: Enjoying a silly, obviously made-up story is fine, as long as everyo… — How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, wo… · tree and pragmatics description: Enjoying a silly, obviously made-up story is fine, as long as everyone knows it is silly; friendly chat that keeps sad things private is fine too. Who acts: Enjoying, everyone, story, friendly chat. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enjoying, everyone, story, friendly chat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson:16 # text = Enjoying a silly, obviously made-up story is fine, as long as everyone knows it is silly; friendly chat that keeps sad things private is fine too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Enjoying enjoy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 3 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 obviously obviously ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 17 nsubj _ _ 17 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 chat chat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 31 too too ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enjoy** | gerund | | a silly made story | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | | 2 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | obviously *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Enjoying | | | | | fine, long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | story | | | | | silly *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **keep** | present | friendly chat | sad things | | | | private *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 7 | **is** | present | friendly chat | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson:16`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/15/) - next →: [How to handle gossip: is it true, is i…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/)